A couple of weeks ago there was a storm of controversy raised between TV talk host Rosie
O'Donnell and her guest, Tom Selleck, who appeared on the former's show to plug a movie.
But since Selleck had also recently completed the taping of some new National Rifle
Association public service commercials, and since this was the waning period following the
Littleton, Colo., school shootings, O'Donnell felt compelled to take Selleck to task on
the air.

Seems as though Rosie -- though she films commercial spots for K-Mart, one of the
country's leading firearms retailers -- was offended by Selleck's NRA affiliation and
sought to admonish him for it in front of the studio audience. That kind of hypocrisy is
typical of rabid, nonsensical liberals, and Rosie fits that category well.

On the other hand my editor, Joseph Farah, also took Mr. Selleck to task -- as he
should have -- for the NRA spokesman's weak defense of his gun lobby affiliation. That's
because my boss and I, as well as millions of you, are sick and tired of seeing pro-gun
voices cower publicly before the galactically stupid over the issue of gun rights, which
according to the Second Amendment shouldn't even be an "issue" in the first
place.

In pondering my response to all of this, I received an email from an attorney
and WorldNetDaily reader named Rick Vaughn who framed the debate much better than I could
have done. I asked him for his permission to use his piece, and he granted it.

So, Ms. O'Donnell, using the words and thoughts of Mr. Vaughn, here is my take on your
position of absurdity involving the gun debate:

"Dear Rosie:

"I respect your First Amendment rights, I really do. Lord knows I fought for them
in law school, just as I would have fought for them when I served in the Marines.

"I respect your intense dislike for guns. That is your right -- to unilaterally
disarm yourself and throw yourself upon the mercy of the government and any assailant who
wants to take or do anything to you or your loved ones. Those too are your rights.

"Apparently you do not respect my rights to exercise the most fundamental of all
human rights -- self-defense -- which in this day and age may only be practically effected
with personal arms.

"I can live with that. Now here is my challenge to you. You give up all your guns.
Every last one of them. The shotgun in the closet, the pistol in the nightstand. No guns
in the House of Rosie.

"No cheating! No private security! Sorry, you have to live under the same
conditions you would condemn others to.

"Take for instance, my hypothetical friend Vonda. She is a single mother of two
and lives on the wrong side of the tracks. Break-ins are common. Police response is slow
to non-existent. That .38 she could have had, which incidentally she is guaranteed
under the Supreme Law of the Land, our Constitution, under your rules, Rosie's Diktat,
she will no longer have.

"The next break-in Vonda suffers at 2:30 in the morning may leave her a statistic.
Kind of like the lady who, in real life, lived two blocks from me. She suffered a
break-in, but didn't have a gun to protect her and her kids. The bad boys tortured her
with an electric iron so they could have money for their drug habit.

"Thanks, Rosie. Vonda's in-laws will thank you, because Vonda isn't with us today.
Her body was found raped and beaten. She's a victim -- a statistic. She's also real. There
are Vondas all across the United States, who live alone and, because of laws like those
you love, are defenseless.

"This is nothing new, the evil have always preyed upon the weak and defenseless.
But if Vonda had had her own gun, she could simply have shown it to her attacker, and like
the 2.5 million Americans who defend themselves against murder, rape, robbery and violent
assault each year, she could have sent the bad boys running with no shots fired.

"Now I said no cheating. This is putting your money where your mouth is: You move
into Vonda's old first-floor apartment. She couldn't afford bars on the windows or an
alarm system, and in the name of fairness, neither should you spend your millions on
either. You get the same police protection Vonda got -- essentially a chalk mark around
her body and some gory pictures to show to a jury.

"That's it Rosie. All I ask is that you put your money where your mouth is, and
live under the same conditions of primal fear you would condemn Vonda and her sisters
to."

Thanks, Rick. Millions of us who are seeing our gun rights frittered away by the
eternally cowardly and shamefully political couldn't have said it better ourselves. And,
considering that Ms. O'Donnell is refusing her invitation to the Tony Awards because she
was scared off by a kidnapping threat last week, your words ought to be particularly
sobering to scores of liberal Americans and, alas, Ms. O'Donnell herself.

Sadly, however, I predict neither she nor other rabid anti-gunners will ever get the
point you're trying to make until they've been killed by some armed predator.